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No. 623,720. Patented Apr. 25, I899. T. n. HYDE, .IR.

SNAP BUTTON.

(Application filed Oct. 15, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, JR, OF \VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SCOVILI. MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SNAP-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,720, dated April 25, 1899.

Application filed October 15, 1898. Serial No. 693,605. N mod l-l To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEOPHILUS R. HYDE, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Snap-But tons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relatesto that class of buttons which are secured to garments by means of metal fastenings, and more especially to that class of such buttons in which the fastening device is a knobbed instead of a pointed tack, and which fastening device engages a spring-anchoring device within the button. Such buttons are known as snap buttons.

In the use of snap-buttons it sometimes ocours that the spring-anchoring device releases the tack under the strains of use. It is the purpose of my invention to prevent such release of the tack; and to this end the invention consists in a snap-button provided with a cincture which surrounds or encircles the spring-anchoring device and prevents such a parting of said device as would permit the escape of the fastening after said fastening is once in place, the said cincture being separate from the back, hub, or shank of the button.

The invention also consists of a snap-button having the spring-anchoring device made integral with the shank or hub of the button combined with a cincture.

For purposes of illustration I have shown my invention as applied to a closed-face button or covered button and also to one in which the face is partly open, but mean not to be understood as limiting myinvention to these two classes or kinds or designs of buttons.

I11 the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 shows in perspective the parts of the closed button detached and also the knobbed fastening. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a cross-section, and Fig. 4 is a similar section with the fastening in position, of the button of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 shows in perspective the parts of the other style of button and its is lost or comes off.

.tached from the fastening.

knobbed fastening. Fig. 6 is a plan view. Fig. 7 is a cross-section, and Fig. 8 is a similar view with the fastening in place, of the button of Fig. 5.

Referring now to the button shown in Figs.

1 to 4:, a is a cover or face-plate of any approved construction. 19 is the back, having a depressed center which forms the shank c, the metal of the shank being returned inwardly and upwardly in the form of a trim-- cated cone d, which is divided into a number of fingers by the slits e, the fingers being springy. f is the cincture having the flaring flange g. This cincture is located within the depressed center of the back and its flange encircles the spring-fingers. The fastening device 77. preferably has a head h, a shank 7& and a knob 7L3, the lower portion of the knob being formed with the shoulder 71 The diameter of the shoulder of the knob is greater than the internal diameter of the cone (1 at the inner or truncated end of said cone. To apply a button of this character to a garment, the fastening 71 is passed through the fabric represented. at i, Fig. 4, and then its knob is forced between the spring-fingers of the cone d, said fingers yielding for this purpose until the shoulder of the knob passes beyond the said spring-fingers, when said springfingers spring back beneath the said shoulder, and thus prevent the escape of the fastening in the reverse direction.

A button having spring-fingers to engage a knobbed fastening is old and is open to the objection already statednamely, that under some strains the spring-fingers become disengaged from the fastening and the button In order to overcome this objection, I use the cincture f g, which, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, surrounds or incloses the spring-fingers, and thus prevents the said spring-fingers from becoming de- As shown in Figs. 3 and 7, there is sufficient space between the cincture and the spring-fingers to permit the passage of the knobbed end of the fastening as it is being applied, and, as seen in Figs. 4 and 8, after the fastening is applied its shank spreads the fingers apart, so that some of this space is occupied,and the cincture thereby is caused to fit with sufiicient closeness to the spring-fingers to prevent them from parting from the fastening to such an extent as to permit of the withdrawal or escape of the fastening.

In the form of button shown in Figs. 5 to 8 the cover or face-plate 70 has the cincture Z made integral therewith by fiangin g or throwing down an opening in its center; but otherwise the button of these figures is substantially the same as that shown in Figs. 1 to 4:, and the corresponding parts are similarly designated. The cincture Z is shown as notched, and such notches will ordinarily appear in throwing down the metal of the cover or face plate-that is to say, they are the ordinary results of such an operation-but wherever possible the cineture may be continuous and without notches, and in any case it is a rigid device and unyielding to the strains imposed by use of the button and its fastening.

It will be observed that both forms of my cincture are structures which are separate from or independent of the depressed center, hub, or shank of the button.

The spring-fingers, it will be observed, form an anchorage or anchoring device, as hereinbefore mentioned, for the fastening device.

The anchoring device of my invention may be and preferably is integral with the shank of the button; but prior to my invention an anchoring device has been made separate from the back or shank of the button. So

far, therefore, as the use of the 'cincture of my invention is concerned I do not limit my invention to an anchoring device made integral with the back or shank of the button.

What I claim is 1. A snap-button, having a cover or faceplate, a back provided with a depressed center, hub or shank, a spring-anchoring device within said depressed center, and a eincturc surrounding said spring-anchoring device, made separate from the depressed center, hub or shank and adapted to prevent the displacement of the anchoring device under strains of use, substantially as described.

2. A snap-button, comprising a cover, a back having a depressed center, a springanchoring device integral with said depressed center, and a cincture surrounding said anchoring device, substantially as described.

3. A snap-button, comprising a back havin g a depressed center, a spring-anchoringdevice within said depressed center, a cover, and a cincture integral with said cover and surrounding the said anchoring device and adapted to prevent the displacement thereof under strains of use, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of October, A. D. 1898.

THEOPI-IILUS R. IIYDE, JR.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY FEHL, GEO. F. I'IODGES. 

